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The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA

Betsy Potash: ELA

Want to love walking into your ELA classroom each day? Excited about innovative strategies like PBL, escape rooms, hexagonal thinking, sketchnotes, one-pagers, student podcasting, genius hour, and more? Want a thriving choice reading program and a shelf full of compelling diverse texts? You"re in the right place! Here you"ll find interviews with top authors from the ELA field, workshops with strategies you can use in class immediately, and quick tips to ignite your English teacher creativity

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288: A Lesser-Known Amanda Gorman Gem

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/04/11

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for this week’s mini episode. Today, as earth day inches closer, I want to share a favorite find, Amanda Gorman’s video poem “Earthrise.” This beautiful poem could fit in so many different places in your curriculum, so let’s talk about them. First of all, let me tell you a bit

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277: How Erica Used the AI PBL Project to give her...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/04/09

It’s never a bad thing when your classroom innovation lands you at a press conference with your state’s department of education! That’s what happened to today’s guest, Erica Kempf. She decided to try out the project-based-learning unit I designed about the ethical use of artificial intelligence, and along the way she and her students made it their own and became the go-to sources for AI in their district. They learned a lot in the process, and I’m so excited to have Erica here to share her

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276: Let All Books Count: A Tale of Two Kids

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/04/04

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for this week’s mini episode. Today, I want to talk about a much-debated subject - when it comes to choice reading, what counts and what doesn’t? If you’ve been here with me for long, I bet you can imagine that a lot of books were involved in the early life of my own children

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275: Teaching SciFi & Fantasy (The Elective Series...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/04/02

We’re about to dive into an elective that combines Beowulf, The Hobbit, Ursula Leguin, graphic novels, and contemporary YA! What holds all these threads together? That’s what repeat guest and creative teacher Caitlin Lore is about to tell you as we continue our series on creative electives across the country. Get ready for the big reveal in just a moment. Go Further: Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast. Join our community, Creative High School English, on Facebook

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274: Using Students’ Love of Youtube to our ELA...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/03/28

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for this week’s mini episode. Today, I want to talk about Youtube, and how we can use students’ love for it to our ELA advantage. One of my goals for this year is to create the curriculum for an elective based on Youtube. I’ve recently watched my son go through the transition

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273: First Chapter Friday: Nancy Tandon Reads

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/03/26

Welcome to the author spotlight series at Spark Creativity. In this series, you’ll hear from authors sharing their work directly into your classroom. So sit back and listen in. Today we’re hearing from Nancy Tandon, reading from her book, The Way I Say It. Nancy has worked as an elementary school teacher, a speech-language pathologist, and an adjunct professor of Phonetics and Child Language Development, all of which helped plant seeds for stories about awesome kids doing brave things. Her

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272: You Need to Know about this Short Story

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/03/21

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for today’s edition of “Highly Recommended.” Today, let’s talk Ken Liu’s short story, “The Paper Menagerie,” one of the best I’ve ever read. “The Paper Menagerie” might also be the only scifi short story I’ve ever read. Did you know it won the Hugo award, the Nebula award, and

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271: #Bookface is Well Worth a Look

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/03/19

You know how we feel here at Spark Creativity about Book PR. Basically it's the best. We're all about bookish posters, displays, podcasts, guest readers, First Chapter Fridays, book trailer Tuesdays, and book tastings. If it helps kids get excited about books, we're all in! Recently I saw a lovely post over in my Creative High School English Facebook group from a teacher who hosted a Bookface competition, and it reminded me of just how much I love this idea! Bookface isn't new, but there's a

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270: Try a March Madness Poetry Bracket

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/03/14

Today, let’s talk about March Madness, and how to harness all that awesome enthusiasm to get your students excited about poetry. Last year I worked with Melissa Alter Smith from #teachlivingpoets to create a March Madness bracket for The Lighthouse, and I learned a lot from her in the process! This is such a fun and easy way to bring more voices into your curriculum and help kids see a lot of different sides of poetry. You can set up your poetry bracket on your white board or on Google Slides. Then

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269: Teaching Research to Digital Natives

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/03/12

Remember when research projects involved stacks of books and notecards? Yeah, me too. But we all know research has changed. I recently finished a couple of pedagogy books for English teachers - one by Angela Stockman on designing inclusive spaces for writers, and another by Katie Novak on Universal Design for Learning in the English classroom. And beyond the many wonderful ideas I took away from them, I was also struck by the variation in the sources they referred to. Sure, they cited texts.

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268: Highly Recommended: These Google Translate Tools

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/03/07

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for today’s edition of “Highly Recommended.” This week, I want to make sure you know just how amazing the Google Translate App really is. Living here in Bratislava, and traveling around Europe with our family, we are constantly confronted by languages we don’t know. On Street

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267: So your Students aren't Doing the Reading?...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/03/05

Today on the podcast, we’re sitting down with Amanda Cardenas to talk about a very big question. A huge question, really. What can teachers do when students aren’t doing the reading? And is reading out loud the majority of our texts the answer? Spoiler alert, we both can completely understand how this would seem like the answer, but in the long run, we don’t think it is. Amanda and I are going to share a lot of ideas, and I’m hopeful that if you’ve been feeling stuck in a situation where kids

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266: Highly Recommended: The Smoothie Grant (Summer...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/02/29

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for today’s edition of “Highly Recommended.” This week, let’s talk about some of the best summer PD options out there. First things first, I’ve got to tell you about my personal favorite summer PD experience of all time, the one my husband still jokingly refers to as my

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265: Teaching Conversation in a Polarized World (The...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/02/27

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about electives. Electives I want to design, like one about Youtube creation and one about Taylor Swift, and the amazing electives teachers in our community are designing and teaching around the world. So of course I’m really excited that today on the podcast we’ve got the first show in a new series about creative electives. My hope is that this series will bring you inspiration for new electives you can propose or new units you can teach, modeled on your

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264: Highly Recommended: Launch Tiny Podcasts

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/02/22

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for today’s edition of “Highly Recommended.” This week, I want to suggest you take the plunge and help your students create a tiny podcast. The first time I rolled out a podcasting project was with my tenth-grade honors students. Our humanities team had decided to create a

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263: Let's Reimagine the "Teacher Work Room"

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/02/20

Ahh, the hum of fluorescent lighting. The slightly stained carpeting. The copier that is almost-if-not-already-out-of-paper. The dirty coffee cups. It's no secret that at many schools, the common teacher workspace isn't exactly inviting. No one really seems to be in charge of it, no resources really seem to be allocated toward it, and no one has time to care. (If that isn't the case at your school, AWESOME! And if that's because of you, that's so cool!) But lately I can't help but ask... what if

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262: Highly Recommended: Let Students Design Escape...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/02/16

This week, I want to suggest you let your students design an escape room. Escape rooms are, in the iconic words of Zoolander, so hot right now. And they have been for years. Students love them! Who wouldn’t want to learn while exploring mysterious clues and piecing together puzzles? The problem is, they take a little bit of forever to create. We’ve already talked about this quite a bit on the podcast! But you know what they say (and yes, it’s based on the research), students elevate their learning

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261: Skill Practice that Isn't Boring: Grammar Edition

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/02/13

So you want your students to get better at something, but drill-and-kill is clearly not the answer. Been there, done that, didn't like it. So what's a creative teacher to do? Today I'm going to pull an example of a grammar skill and walk through five different ways to practice it without those groans you dread. While the skill I'm zooming in on may not be the exact one that's your focus right now, you can apply these five different strategies to pretty much anything. I'm hopeful that by the end

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260: Highly Recommended: This Super Bowl Activity

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/02/08

This week, I want to share a great way to tie rhetorical analysis into the upcoming Superbowl. First things first, we know this Superbowl has a hilarious additional wrinkle, in that the world is excited to watch not only the game, but Taylor Swift attending the game. That extra detail may help more students be interested in a Superbowl-related activity this month. So let me explain this rhetorical analysis one-pager activity (by the way, link to this free resource is in the show notes). The

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259: First Chapter Friday: Matt de la Peña Reads

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/02/06

Welcome to the second episode of the author spotlight series here at Spark Creativity! In this series, you’ll hear from authors sharing their work directly into your classroom. Today we’re hearing from Matt de la Peña reading his short story "How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium," from the collection, Flying Lessons. Stay tuned throughout the year to hear from many more wonderful authors, including Victor Pineiro, Payal Doshi,

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